Scrap by Kathy Biggs

 Scrap by Kathy Biggs




Scrap by Kathy Biggs was published on 23rd June by Honno. My thanks to the author and the publisher for sending me a copy to review and to Random Book Tours for inviting me to take part on the tour.




Synopsis


Life has become stale for best friends Mackie and Sharon, who never imagined they’d end up working in a scrapyard. Sharon has dreams of becoming a cruise ship star, while a browbeaten Mackie cares for his wayward daughter’s twins. But fate takes an unexpected turn when a mysterious kid is discovered in the boot of a car. He has a remarkable gift—he can draw visions of the future, and this opens up new avenues that neither could have foreseen… Scrap is a modern fable about the human capacity to overcome the hand life deals us and start afresh




My Review

I won't lie, this took me a while to get into , but I persevered and I am so relieved that I did as it morphs into one of the loveliest books I have read this year. The strength and love of friendship and second chances is paramount throughout the book and the story is told in such a way as to make you feel you know each of the characters personally.

It is poignant that the hub for the setting is a scrap yard where cars past their best end their days as scrap and not important which is many ways is symbolic as to how some of the characters feel. Riley and his gift of going into " the white room" and drawing images from the future which can help both himself and others is the main link throughout and , no pun intended, is a novel idea.

This is a book that makes you look at where you are in life and where do you want it to go. It will tug at your heart strings, it will make you want to shake some of the characters at times, but most of all you will see humanity at its best; warts and all .


A huge 5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 read from me.


About the Author



Kathy Biggs is originally from Yorkshire. She took a summer job in Mid Wales in 1985 - and never left. She has two grown children and lives with her husband, Paul. After studying a number of Creative Writing courses linked to Aberystwyth University, she discovered a talent for writing. The Luck was her first novel

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